And I don't mean cuddling up with someone the size of a whale. I mean tablespoons. There's masses of different types of cutlery in our house. All knifes, forks and spoons but all from different sets - there used to be a "fancy set" only brought out for my parent's dinner parties but even that's been mixed in there now as well.
Anyway, from all of these sets there's only two sorts of table spoons I like. If there isn't any of those ones clean I'll look for a dirty one to clean. The others are all too big, they feel uncomfortable in my mouth, like they're pushing at the sides of my mouth when I'm eating off them and it makes me feel sick. And they all have the wrong curve on them, no good for eating soup. I guess its just one of my small random nitpicks, like hating the sound of tearing cardboard. Or maybe I just have a small mouth, either way it stopped me eating a bowl of cereal yesterday and that annoyed me.
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
So I worked...
I got paid to do something for the first time in over a year. It wasn't fun work certainly but I got paid. I shredded fifteen bin-liners full of paper, moved some boxes, did some IT work and reorganised a store cupboard. I know, exhilirating right? But I got paid. With money! It was a nice experience.
I was however, quite unfortunately, drawn away from my duties by an interesting woman called Sharn. When I say say interesting I mean strange. The sort of woman that mutters under hear breath, loudly. It took her ten minutes to explain that she wanted some boxes moved from her office to someone down the hall. Which is all well and good. Then she decided she had to show me where the place was. We were half way there when she stops suddenly and talks to someone about her holiday, for twenty minutes, while I was stood there holding a box.
I was however, quite unfortunately, drawn away from my duties by an interesting woman called Sharn. When I say say interesting I mean strange. The sort of woman that mutters under hear breath, loudly. It took her ten minutes to explain that she wanted some boxes moved from her office to someone down the hall. Which is all well and good. Then she decided she had to show me where the place was. We were half way there when she stops suddenly and talks to someone about her holiday, for twenty minutes, while I was stood there holding a box.
Monday, 2 August 2010
Shredding...
So I'm currently jobless and penniless, you know, the typical University student situation. As it turns out I've been offered some work tomorrow at the college where my Dad works. To do what? You ask. Well to shred things, apparently. I am to be paid some amount of money for some amount of my time tomorrow to shred an unspecified amount of paper.
Sounds like easier enough work to me, maybe it'll help somewhat in paying off my debts.
Sounds like easier enough work to me, maybe it'll help somewhat in paying off my debts.
An honest review...
So I uploaded the first chapter of the novel I am currently writing today to the Young Writers Society website, in hope that I may receive a little bit of honest criticism. I wasn't disappointed. Unfortunately there is only so much friends can tell you when you send them a copy of your work, they may try to be brutally honest when you tell them to be but nothing beats the honesty of anonymous users of the internet.
Suffice to say I have since rewritten and edited the first chapter of my story and I am about to begin working on the second, I feel that I won't be writing any new chapters for a little while, not until I've least improved the six chapters I already have.
Suffice to say I have since rewritten and edited the first chapter of my story and I am about to begin working on the second, I feel that I won't be writing any new chapters for a little while, not until I've least improved the six chapters I already have.
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Something worth listening to...
I currently have 5210 songs on iTunes, a mix of rock, metal, classical, blues... I think there may even be some country in there.
Every couple of months I look through all of my music and try to prune it. Suffice to say with over 5000 songs in your playlist you don't listen to all of them. This ritual pruning is to get rid of the songs I'll skip instantly if they come up while the player is on shuffle. Therein lies the first problem; I'm a little OCD when it comes to the music I own.
I hear a song I like? I'll get the whole album that the song is on.
I get the album? I'll get every single studio album released by the artist.
...then of course I have to edit all the song names, the album names, the artist's name to make sure it's 100% accurate. My room may be a pigsty sometimes but my music collection is immaculate.
So once I've cleared out the artists I no longer listen to, I've probably lost maybe 500 or so songs from my collection. Which is a noticeable chunk out of my collection. It is at this point that I start scouring the internet to find out which of the bands I still listen to has out new material. If I can't find any there I'll start looking for brand new material, generally through the recommendations of my Last FM page.
As this is a system I've used for several months now I have finally endeavoured to note down all of the upcoming albums that I'm interested in:
O.A.R - TBA - Summer 2010
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier - Summer 2010
Disturbed - Asylum - August 2010
Firewind - TBA - Autumn 2010
Alter Bridge - TBA - September 2010
Allen-Lande - The Showdown - September 2010
Crossfade - We All Bleed - October 2010
Celldweller - Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head Vol. 2, Chapter 2 - TBA 2010
Leave's Eyes - At Heaven's End [EP] - TBA 2010
The Absemce - Enemy Unbound - TBA 2010
Naildown - TBA - TBA 2010
Mortal Love - TBA - TBA 2010
Nightwish - TBA - TBA 2011
And there it is, the release dates and everything. I know its a little OCD but I can't go a day without having something worth listening to.
Every couple of months I look through all of my music and try to prune it. Suffice to say with over 5000 songs in your playlist you don't listen to all of them. This ritual pruning is to get rid of the songs I'll skip instantly if they come up while the player is on shuffle. Therein lies the first problem; I'm a little OCD when it comes to the music I own.
I hear a song I like? I'll get the whole album that the song is on.
I get the album? I'll get every single studio album released by the artist.
...then of course I have to edit all the song names, the album names, the artist's name to make sure it's 100% accurate. My room may be a pigsty sometimes but my music collection is immaculate.
So once I've cleared out the artists I no longer listen to, I've probably lost maybe 500 or so songs from my collection. Which is a noticeable chunk out of my collection. It is at this point that I start scouring the internet to find out which of the bands I still listen to has out new material. If I can't find any there I'll start looking for brand new material, generally through the recommendations of my Last FM page.
As this is a system I've used for several months now I have finally endeavoured to note down all of the upcoming albums that I'm interested in:
O.A.R - TBA - Summer 2010
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier - Summer 2010
Disturbed - Asylum - August 2010
Firewind - TBA - Autumn 2010
Alter Bridge - TBA - September 2010
Allen-Lande - The Showdown - September 2010
Crossfade - We All Bleed - October 2010
Celldweller - Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head Vol. 2, Chapter 2 - TBA 2010
Leave's Eyes - At Heaven's End [EP] - TBA 2010
The Absemce - Enemy Unbound - TBA 2010
Naildown - TBA - TBA 2010
Mortal Love - TBA - TBA 2010
Nightwish - TBA - TBA 2011
And there it is, the release dates and everything. I know its a little OCD but I can't go a day without having something worth listening to.
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Well this is new...
I have decided to start a blog; for several reasons. The first is quite simply that I got a little tired of not having anything to put in the 'your website' box on the various forums I'm part of. Admittedly this isn't the finest reason to have a blog, but there are other reasons.
On rare occasion I think I have something to say; it may not be important or even interesting but sometimes it is worth putting down on paper. This blog is to fulfil that purpose.
I've had blogs before which I've never properly maintained but I'm going to try and maintain this one. I also have several writings which do not have a proper home which I may or may not post here. More as a form of back-up than anything else, since my computers have become particularly prone to BSODing on me recently.
So as it stands I might post about my day, I might post about something that interests me, I might post about the forty year old man who parked a Chrysler across two disabled places at Tesco today even though he showed no sign of having a disability. Aside from having bought a Chrysler of course.
That's it for now however.
On rare occasion I think I have something to say; it may not be important or even interesting but sometimes it is worth putting down on paper. This blog is to fulfil that purpose.
I've had blogs before which I've never properly maintained but I'm going to try and maintain this one. I also have several writings which do not have a proper home which I may or may not post here. More as a form of back-up than anything else, since my computers have become particularly prone to BSODing on me recently.
So as it stands I might post about my day, I might post about something that interests me, I might post about the forty year old man who parked a Chrysler across two disabled places at Tesco today even though he showed no sign of having a disability. Aside from having bought a Chrysler of course.
That's it for now however.
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